Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the ...
The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia ...
Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly Ordway, whose 2023 biography Tolkien’s Faith constitutes a significant breakthrough ...
JRR Tolkien - full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - was an English writer, poet and academic. He is best known for his fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is often ...